Gah!

Caramels, Cookies n' Cream Pie, and Turtle Pie are of the devil. Seriously. I'm scared to even get on the scale. Ugh. That was last week and this week isn't going any better. :P

Christmas sweets....uh-oh

Nothing says Christmas like Orange sticks.......and Almond Roca.......and chocolate covered cherries.....and.....well, I guess you get the point. I'm a little nervous with all these treats around. I don't want to throw them out, but I have a really hard time disciplining myself when it's around. Help!!!

I did pretty well again this week, except Thursday I didn't workout because I came down with the flu on Wednesday afternoon. I pretty much stayed in bed for a whole day, but tried to make it up by running on Friday, which I haven't done in a long time. (Because I HATE running outside in the winter!) Other than that, I'm just more nervous for the upcoming week and all the sugar around.

So I guess the main thing I'm going to work on this week is not over-doing it with the sweets.

I'll exercise, drink water, snack on healthy food, and REALLY AVOID TOO MUCH CANDY!!!

I think I might pick a few pieces everyday and put it in a seperate bowl. When they are gone, no more for the day..... We'll see how it goes! Wish me luck. I'm really gonna need it!

Hope everyone had a great Holiday! I really do love Christmas!

Thanks Cami

At the beginning of this week I thought to myself "gee Michelle, it's the week of Christmas, why not take a break?" Then I read your post Cami and the part about doing this blog this time of year helped me realize something. How often during the year do we say that to ourselves "let's take a break because of this...."? I do it all the time. Take a break because it's my birthday. Take a break because it's a holiday. Take a break because I had a bad week. No wonder I am the way I am, I took too many breaks. :P So, while my body wants to go on vacation, I'm going to try hard not too.

So far I'm doing pretty well by not overeating and drinking water. I haven't been going to bed early because my nights are packed since I've been working more than usual. Honestly, I probably won't get any workouts in because seriously, I have a ton to do. But running around counts as something right? That and being on my feet all day at work. (I'm totally counting that too lol!) Have a merry Christmas everyone!!

YIKES!!!!!

Okay....um....shall we just all start over fresh tomorrow? I think so. There was just WAY too much stuff covered in chocolate around my house this past week for me to stay away from! It was bad. I'm off treats until Christmas Eve though! Anyone with me on this????!

I worked out Monday-Saturday though and feel good about that, and I actually did AMAZING on not eating after 7:00pm! I only ate later than that on Saturday night because we ate dinner at an ugly Christmas Sweater party that night. Other than that, I did good!

I'm going to try to keep that goal again this week, and workout Monday-Friday. No treats until Christmas Eve, and drink LOTS OF WATER!


Isn't it funny how we started this thing up during the hardest part of the year (food and time wise???) Good for us!!! Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Cami Jo!

Terrible Week

This week for working out has been terrible. I tried, but I had a little one with the stomach flu, or I thought. To find out later he is allergic to soy milk, he was using it instead of regular milk which he is allergic to also.

I have found that I need to be held accountable for my workouts and my eating and you guys are it! Thanks!

My goal this coming week is to workout Monday through Wednesday doing P90X in the morning and I am cleaning apartments these three days also. So I should get a good extra from that. My goal for eating is to eat more fruits and veggies and layoff the treats until Christmas day. Wednesday we are headed to Temple Square and staying the night in UT. So I won't get my workout on Thursday morning, but will workout Friday Morning. I think that will work for the week.

Good luck everyone and Merry Christmas!

My week

I have been sick this week so some goals went out the window. I haven't worked out because I was too sick to. I have been drinking a lot of Gatorade though. It was the one thing I could keep down. I have gone to bed early a few times, that's been good. And I've been keeping an eye on the HFCS and not eating it. So, despite being sick it hasn't been too bad of a week. I didn't make any new goals this week but I will next week! I'm going to start weighing myself on Saturdays to see if I gain or lose weight. I'm worried to see where I will be at this weekend. It probably won't be pretty. :P

Week Recap

So it looks like I could've done a little better with the treats this week. I was hoping to do only 3 desserts total, but couldn't seem to stop picking at leftover carmel cake ALL day on Wednesday! Ugh. So...I had a few more treats then planned, but still did pretty good........besides Wednesday. I exercised Monday-Saturday and worked out for at least 40 minutes each day.

I am going to shoot for 3 treats again all week, and exercise Monday-Saturday and also add one more goal for this week. NOTHING to eat after 7pm for 5 of the 7 days this week. That's a hard one for me, since I tend to snack and eat junk after the kids go to bed at night. I'm going to work extra hard on that one this week. I'll let you know how I did next Sunday!!!

Oh...by the way, I've lost about 3 pounds in the last 2 weeks, and a certain pair of pants that use to be too tight now fit!!! So...something is obviously happening. I guess I just need to keep up my motivation. Thanks for helping girls!

Excited!

So glad this is back up and running. I so needed the extra help. I am starting back on seriously tomorrow. I need to get my eating back under control, it has been terrible.

I joined the gym, but really only for the treadmill. I am miserable walking outside in the cold.

My goals are:

Monday/Wednesday/Friday to do P90X at 5am and when the kids get on the bus to go to the gym and walk/run on the treadmill for an hour.

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday to do P90X at 5am (my kids are up at 6-6:30a and it does not matter the day)

I am going to follow the old Weight Watcher Point System for my eating and lay off sweets. We are having family pictures at the end of February and I have my 25 year Class Reunion at the end of June. So I need to get my behind in gear. I truly am excited for all of you and hope you reach your goals too!

New week

Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday, I think I might have a tummy bug and haven't felt up to it. So I'm going to make this quick. I'm keeping my goals from last week (drinking more water, going to bed early, work out at least 3x) and adding one this week - get rid of all HFCS. For the most part, I've been doing really well with this and not buying things that have it in it. We've already switched a few things like our brand of syrup has changed and so has our ketchup. And guess what I noticed the other day? My 100% whole wheat bread has HFCS in it!! I couldn't believe it! Who does that?? So I'm definitely going to be scouring our food to make sure we don't have any more that are "hidden" with HFCS. :P

Here we go again....

I feel like I did pretty well again this week. I could still drink more water, but I HATE having to go to the bathroom all the time! Ugh. I stuck with the 3 treats and I'll keep that goal again. I'd like to cut it down even more, but it's too difficult with so much going on during the holidays. I'll stick to 3 for now, and if I exercise again everyday I'm okay with allowing myself 3 treats. There's always a happy medium, right??? So..here's my plan:

No treats Monday
Tuesday- I'll have stuff since it IS my birthday!!!!
Wednesday nothing
Thursday- yes...(I have a RS enrichment progressive dinner...no way I'm passing up on THAT dessert!)
Then I'll pick one day in the weekend to have something. Wish me luck! (Is it weird that I plan out my treats for the week ahead of time??!)

Exercising has become a little more of a challenge since our Elliptical broke, but we (James and I)have found ways to be creative. I think I ran about 2 miles one morning, right in my bedroom, watching 24. Not my favorite thing to do...(Running in place or in a bedroom), but sometimes when the work-out tapes get too repetitive, it's nice to change up the routine. I think I'm going to be getting a 4-month Gym pass to the College Gym here in town, with my neighbor starting in January. That way we can get into shape together, and by summer we'll be able to run outside again! (I absolutely HATE running outside in the winter time!!!)

So....3 sweets and exercise Monday-Saturday are my main goals again. Okay, okay, I'll watch the white flour again too!!!

Much better week

This past week was by far better than my previous week, woohoo! I did really good with going to bed earlier, almost every night. My water intake was a lot better, even though I don't like the increase in bathroom trips lol. What I did find interesting though, was that if I drank a lot of water one day, but hadn't gotten to it the next day, my body actually craved more water. Interesting huh? The one thing I didn't do as well on was exercising, I did that one day instead of my three. But I'm proud of myself for doing at least that (baby steps right?). :) I'll post my new goals on Monday!

How did everyone else do?

mid-week reminder

SO, I'm tired of having to "suck it in" all the time. Wouldn't it be nice just to be able to sit on the floor and not worry about the rolls hanging over the jeans? Or put on a cute shirt and not have to wear something bulky over the top to cover up the flaws? I am ready to STAY motivated!!!! Sometimes in the middle of the week it gets harder and I need an extra reminder of what I'm working for. Do I want to be healthy and thinner more than I want that shake? YES! I just need to remember that when I'm staring it in the eye. These updates are helping me too, Michelle. It's nice to have to be accountable to someone for what I've done in the week! Good luck this weekend! We can DO IT!

Cami, you rock :D

And I need to be hit with one. :P Seriously, my week sucked. I was mindful of my goals but didn't really do them. The reason being, whether good or not is still up for debate, I had so much going on last week I could barely think straight. First was work, we had an abundance of patients due to closing early for the holiday. Then a snow storm hit. Add in to the normal daily activities the fact that we still had a bunch of loose ends to finish up for our big cousin sleepover and family Christmas party. So I spent hours and hours putting things together (like prepping blankets for our family service project and I still ended up having to do them all myself minus 4 - making about 15 blankets this week should be interesting) which wore me out. We had friends stop in from out of town, which was nice but I got behind. The cousin sleepover was a huge hit and a lot of fun but exhausting (having 9 extra kids running around does that). Plus, I went Black Friday shopping so I was exhausted the next day. Then we had to get family pictures with all the extended family (this was easier said then done) and then quickly finish getting things together for the Christmas party we were in charge of immediately following pictures and lunch. And then we came home and went to bed as early as we could after spending time with family so we could get up the next day to go to a farewell. The drive, one way, that is usually about 40 mins but took 1 hour and 20 mins because the roads were terrible. By the time we got home I was ready for a bath and bed.

And that was just part of my week. *sigh* Needless to say, I'll be keeping my same goals for this week and trying again. Where's a rock when you need one...

How did I do???

So, here's my report for the week...

I didn't have ANY dessert until Thursday....and even then, (since my Thanksgiving dinner was a little interesting, and they DIDN'T have pie.....I didn't really splurge.) I had a few sweets over the weekend, but kept it to one a day. I exercised everyday except Sunday.....and overall feel like I ate very well.

This week I'm going to only have 3 treats all week (haven't decided what days yet) and I'm going to workout everyday again.

This week I'm going to focus more on drinking more water and eating less snacks. We'll see how I do.

I'm working right now on losing about 2 inches around my waist. Hopefully, it will help me stay focused during this Holiday season with so many sweets around!

My goals

I've been trying to come up with good goals for the week. I know I have to start somewhere but it's hard. I don't want to be too aggressive and then not want to do anything later yk? So I'm going to start off easy. I have three goals this week: first, drink 64 oz of water 6 out of the 7 days, second, workout at least 3x this week, and third, go to bed before 11pm at least 3x this week. If I can get these three down, I think I'm on my to becoming healthier. :)

Cami's Sunday night goals....

So, I'm kind of a moron, and typed all my health goals for the week on my other blog. Duh. But...I'm too lazy to type it again, so I left it and I'll leave you a link to my other blog if you care to see my goals for the week!

www.funfamilyoffour.blogspot.com

Thanks.

Cami

Hello :-)

Cami invited me to join awhile ago, but I haven't posted an introduction yet. My name is Michelle, I have three children and I've been married 8 years. About 4 years ago I decided I wanted to be healthier so I invited two other friends, also fellow moms, to start running with me. We ran our first 5k that year and it was amazing! Since then, I've run another 5k and a 10k last year. I was doing really well keeping up with my running/exercising but when I became pregnant with #3 things have been very different.

I was pregnant my last year of college and not only was my pregnancy hard, my classes were too. I had my baby during my last semester and a month later I had to do my final clinical rotation. Having to work 40 hours while my husband (who took that same semester off from school so I could work and our kids didn't have to be in daycare) took care of our 1 month old and two other children, was harder than I ever imagined. We made it work but I was so stressed from being gone so much and the class/work load I had, exercising wasn't on my to do list.

The stress from my rotation ended but then I was stressed with studying for my last final before graduation. I made it through and graduated though, so yay! But I was tired from everything, I felt I needed a break. So again, I didn't exercise much, I just wanted to veg and not have to worry about studying and enjoy being home with my family. So I did, for about two months until I needed to study for my licensure exam. More stress. But I finished with that and passed my test, yay!

During this whole time, I kept telling myself, I'll start exercising and being more healthy as soon as this is finished...as soon as this is finished...ok, as soon as THIS is finished. Yeah, nothing came of it. This whole year I've let stress eat me alive and I've totally compensated by eating. After having my baby, I was under my pre-pregnancy weight and it felt awesome. But today, I'm ashamed to say I've put on 27 lbs. I about choked when I got on the scale. Who puts on 27 lbs in 9 months?!

So that's my story and here I am. I realize I have two main problems when it comes to my weight. The first, stress keeps me from wanting to be healthy. The second, after a long day, I feel like I deserve a reward so after the kids go to bed is when I treat myself. The first I'm doing really well with. Instead of having a huge to do list that never ends, I've been getting things done so they're not hanging over my head. That's made a huge difference, doing things sooner rather than later. But the second thing, I haven't figured out how to get that out of my head. Any suggestions there would be great. I'm ready to not be so unhealthy. I want to feel better about me and right now, I don't like myself very much.

Goals...

My new goal is to do 3 pull-ups. What's yours????

Winter's coming...

So, how is everyone doing???? Summer is coming quickly to an end. I'll admit I'm a little bummed. I LOVE to get outside to exercise, and during the winter seasons, it just doesn't happen. How do you all stay motivated during the Fall/Winter months? It seems like during the winter I stay inside (with the food) and don't feel as energetic. Anybody have any tips to help me before the season changes????

10K!!!!!!!

So, last Saturday I ran my 10K. I did it in 1 hour and 7 minutes, which isn't FAST by any means, but I was trying to stay under 1 hour 15 minutes, so at least I made my goal! It ended up being in the 10min/mile area, which was fine by me! Here is a picture of the race....my mom, my cousin Shalae, my Aunt Shareen, my sister-in-law Rachel (not in the first picture but in the second), and my friend Jamie all did it with me. It was so much fun. The three ladies in the first picture with me walked and they did it SO FAST!!!! (for walking that is!) Sometimes, I think it's easier to jog slowly, than to walk that fast! They walked about 4 miles an hour and completed the race in just about 1 1/2 hours. Rachel, my sister-in-law, took 2nd in her age category, since she ran it in 54 minutes!!!! I'm amazed! And Jamie ran it in 58 minutes which is also amazing! Such wonderful girls! Thanks again ladies! It was a blast!

Hello....is anybody there???

Just wondering if anybody looks at this blog anymore. Well...I'll still write just for the heck of it. I've lost almost all my baby weight and it's taken me an entire year! Can you believe it? Something was way different after the third kid! I still exercised and ate healthy, but it just didn't come off as easily. I feel healthier than I've ever been though, so I love it! I am running a 10K on Saturday, and I'll let you know how it goes! ....um....that is if anybody reads this still!!!!

2nd Round

I have started my 2nd round of P90X. I am doing it a little different this time and hope that I can keep up with it. I did the Lean program the 1st time and I dropped 3 sizes. I did not loose any weight, but I also did not gain any weight. Which I am happy about. So this time I have decided to do the program this way, Odd weeks I will do the Lean program and Even weeks I am doing the double program (You workout morning and night 3-4 times a week staring week 6). So we shall see how it all goes. My 13 weeks ends a week before my birthday, so I figured it was a good target to reach for this time. I did not make my goal by my kids birthday, but came pretty close. So here is to the next challenge!

Happy

I have been doing the P90X for 8 weeks, on my 9th week this week. I can tell a difference. I went to Maurice's to see what I could use my Christmas Gift Card on thinking I can't fit into anything there. Well, I was brave a grabbed a size 11/12 pair of Jeans and THEY FIT (well a little big in the hip and leg area)!! I was SHOCKED!! I have not be this size in 14 years. I have 5 more weeks of P90X Lean Program and I can't wait to see the final me. I am going to do the program again though when I finish it this time. It is a killer, but it truly works! Hope everyone is doing great this month!